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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
To me league is repetitive. It lacks the "battle for the ball" that rucks/mauls/scrums allow. Union is a more subtle sport. The days of kick, kick, kick are long gone from union (excluding South Africa).
The argument can be made that league is on life support.
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What? Where? It's only ever been popular in Australia and New Zealand (mostly Australia) and it's popularity isn't decreasing at all.
And while you're right on the "battle for the ball" element, you rarely see rucks/scrums/mauls that result in the ball being turned over through anything but a penalty, at least at the top levels. There's a reason that clip is out of the ordinary, those sequences don't happen very often.